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The Guidelines for Sustainable Open Source Communities in the Public Sector aim to provide you with step-by-step solutions and best practices to foster the sustainability and success of open source projects in the public sector.

"Medical R&D should respond to specific priority health needs. Opening up the R&D process to a wide range of contributors and stakeholders will allow the design of medicines that are better adapted to the needs of the end users, and will define the preferred product characteristics (PPCs) and target product profile (TPP) that will guide all the phases of product development. In OS, there are no insiders, meaning that strategic decisions may be made through informed community debate against the agreed-upon TPP. The broader community is thus involved in designing how a product will be developed, defining the studies that will be done, and establishing the criteria that will be applied for making stop/go decisions. In order to achieve this, investments are needed to build online communities and platforms that help groups collaborate effectively."

advocate in the free software movement, said to debian mailing list "It's Time to Talk about Free Software Again", founded the Open Research Institute, promotes open radio communications standards and open-source hardware, created The Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source

L'industrie du logiciel libre (ou open source) connaît une forte croissance dans le monde. « Ces logiciels sont omniprésents dans les infrastructures Web et la mobilité, et dans les logiciels embarqués, c'est-à-dire des logiciels présents dans les voitures, avions ou électroménagers », explique Stéphane Couture, chercheur en sociologie et communication numérique à l'Université McGill.

Deputy Chairman of The Document Foundation (Libreoffice). involved in the Taiwanese open source community since 1993, and since 2015 he is the President of the Software Liberty Association Taiwan (SLAT)